Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:26 am
Nomad Troubles 0_o
Ok, so I've fought, turboed, and nano-ed all the way to the Nomad Homeworld mission...
Well, I start out OK, blasting a few of those pathetically killable Nomad fighters, cruising down to the surface of the Dyson sphere. Killed the 4 Gens with my precious torp launcher and some fine gun work, etc etc... Well, I had taken exactly 0 hull damage the entire time, not even using a single nanobot. My shields had just finished recharging. Feeling confident, I stepped on the gas and zipped through the door...
And got about a half second view of the scenery beneath before being blown to bits. No missile warning, no shield drop notification, no nothing. Just plain boom. I had no time to see exactly what killed me, or to see how much of it there was.
Here's my rig: an Anubis I had aquired a few missions before, complete with:
-Order HF shield
-Advanced Thruster
-Reaper II(x6)
-Reaper I Turret(x1)
-Starkiller Torp launcher
-Advanced countermeasure launcher
-Razor mines
-full nanobots and 11 batteries
Since people have obviously done this and lived before, it's obviously not one of those things that's impossible...So exactly WHAT is down there? And exactly HOW does it go through 3800+ shield points and 4200 armor points in one lousy strike? I didn't see any excess projectiles zipping through my remains, so it had to be a small number of whatever.
And, while I'm a t it, is there a specific way to get through that door WITHOUT getting nailed by whatever the heck that was? 0_o
Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless
Well, I start out OK, blasting a few of those pathetically killable Nomad fighters, cruising down to the surface of the Dyson sphere. Killed the 4 Gens with my precious torp launcher and some fine gun work, etc etc... Well, I had taken exactly 0 hull damage the entire time, not even using a single nanobot. My shields had just finished recharging. Feeling confident, I stepped on the gas and zipped through the door...
And got about a half second view of the scenery beneath before being blown to bits. No missile warning, no shield drop notification, no nothing. Just plain boom. I had no time to see exactly what killed me, or to see how much of it there was.
Here's my rig: an Anubis I had aquired a few missions before, complete with:
-Order HF shield
-Advanced Thruster
-Reaper II(x6)
-Reaper I Turret(x1)
-Starkiller Torp launcher
-Advanced countermeasure launcher
-Razor mines
-full nanobots and 11 batteries
Since people have obviously done this and lived before, it's obviously not one of those things that's impossible...So exactly WHAT is down there? And exactly HOW does it go through 3800+ shield points and 4200 armor points in one lousy strike? I didn't see any excess projectiles zipping through my remains, so it had to be a small number of whatever.
And, while I'm a t it, is there a specific way to get through that door WITHOUT getting nailed by whatever the heck that was? 0_o
Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless
